Reg wrote:
cheers, Carl (who has rather boringly and probably short-sightedly named
his computers 'server', 'desktop' and 'laptop')
Had to laugh at this, I named mine One, Two and Three at one stage :-)
I now have then called Dell, Celeron-466 and Celeron-333. So long as I don't
end up with two machines the same I should be ok :-)
Snap! P4Ubuntu606 here, XP1800Ubuntu606 at home. This way when a
resource pops up on the network, you're not wondering what its specs are.
Well actually the latter is nameless at present I think since I put PC-BSD
on it.
'Skip-mangling newbie tip' #2
(at least on GNU/Linux, after sufficient partitioning):
Give system naming good thought at installtime, so that you don't later
want to change it. That can adversely affect how some programs (do not)
run thereafter, depending on how well you manage such change.
But I will worry about that at a later stage, still can't get it
connected to the net yet, but all in good time.
You're probably furthest out on limb with an o/s least used by others.
There's such a lot to get the head around in this field that helpers
really do need to be looking at the same (kind of) system. The more the
better. Unfortunately we live in an age of 'market mindshare
competition', and we need to adapt to this as a positive for our
community :) There's room for all.
Regards
Reg
I hope it goes well,
--
Rik Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz> on virus-free
Ubuntu GNU/Linux 6.06 freeOS, 2.6.15-26-686 kernel, GNOME 2.14.3 desktop
